August 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it unsafe for large groups of students to gather for in-person assessments. A logical and humane response is many colleges and universities are announcing SAT and ACT optional policies for the 2021 application cycle. For decades, American colleges and universities have relied on these exams for evaluating and contextualizing international

August 10, 2020 | : Katherine Torres, now a rising senior at the University of North Georgia, never thought about a career in foreign service before last year, when she attended the Cox-State Department Diplomacy Seminar. The program, sponsored  by the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, an organization dedicated to recruiting and retaining foreign service officers,

August 10, 2020 | : When we talk about diversity, equity and inclusion on campus, religion isn’t always a part of the conversation. But with its inaugural international conference, Convergence, a nonprofit focused on campus religious diversity, worked to change that. Convergence’s International Conference on Religious, Secular, and Spiritual Identities in Higher Education gathered scholars

August 6, 2020 | : The percentage of Black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) principals in charge of higher education institutions in England has dropped from 13% in 2017 to 5% or 6% of the nation’s 239 further education (FE) colleges currently, reports The Guardian. Meanwhile, the number of BAME students has risen to 30%